Pain is Worthless

This is an old rant. I realize it sucks, but not because I’m wrong.

Also, I have no desire to debate any further, ever. I’m satisfied that humanity can offer no sufficient rebuttal to my core positions, and that I am incapable of convincing anyone of anything with facts and logic.

I’ve learned a lot since then but my opinion remains the same, and I’m trying to leverage my content for some income. No choice in a profit obsessed society. Click an ad if you can, it really matters to me because I have no income. The pennies really do add up.

“They could be shown the mastery of their minds and bodies, so that they could achieve the full expression of their powers, not spend their lives like ineffectual ghosts trapped in a marvelous machine beyond their skill to operate. They could break the domination of pain, so that it became a sentinel and not a tyrant, sending messages which the rational mind could accept or ignore as it pleased. Above all, they could choose to die only when they wished; they would be shown the many paths that led beyond the grave, and the price that must be paid for immortality in all its forms. A vista of infinite time would open up before them, with all its terror and promise. Some minds could face this, some could not; here was the dividing line between those who would inherit the universe, and those who were only quick-witted animals.” ~Arthur C Clarke (Via character.)

See also:
http://www.hedweb.com/transhumanism/neojainism.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7121/abs/nature05413.html

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